Based on Stephen Karpman’s work 1972 The diagram of the drama triangle is a pictogram that represents the history of a post war industrial society, the focus at the time was on progress. These technological, medical, agricultural, social advancements came at a great cost to human rights and decent environmental practices. This was acceptable at the time because the quality of living for the Westerner, was greatly enhanced. Currently, however, there is more at stake and these old patterns need to be re-examined. The drama triangle is the story of codependency, narcissism and addiction, roles that are forced onto us from the over culture because we are not able to grasp the arc of human dynamics and interpersonal relationship. There is no space, not a lot of room to evolve and to shed old patterns. We are burdened by generations of un-healed trauma in our family lines. There are but…

“Postural tone is the foundation of our resting state and our readiness to engage in life.” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen 2022 Just beginning an online course with Bonnie on muscles, and very much looking forward to learning a thing or two about embodied movement and muscular diversity. As I descend again into another round of trauma recovery work, I find myself revisiting old patterns and constructs. I am looking at the same internal space with eyes, a little less clouded. I am making more connections and having the courage to rearrange the floor plan, crack open some doors, possibly open a window or two. In relationship to my terrible posture, I am discovering that the art of correcting it, lies in not one or two linear movements, but possibly twenty or so, connected subtle shifts, all the way from my pelvic floor to my jaw and the top of my mouth. …

“ If you are violent inside yourself then you will be violent outside. If you are critical to your self, then you will be critical to others.” R. Schwartz Using the same logic, love yourself and you will love others. It is always pleasing to me when I can overlap a Western psychotherapy model with a Chinese medical model. Richard Schwartz unpacks the concepts of multiple parts within each person, by inviting them to dialogue with the adult within, to restore health to the system of the Self (with a capital S). In Chinese medicine there are similar theories, one we call the Shen (with a capital S). Shen is the greater consciousness and each individual is a mirror of the holographic system. Little shen is a representation of the state of trauma within the heart space, in a human body. If the little shen is disrupted then there will…